Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE
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Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below by Paul Ozorak

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on the United Kingdom and the United States run to, respectively, around 30 pages and 90 pages, both of which contain a lot of information that is new to this writer. There are also lengthy sections on Canada, France, and Germany, and Ozorak (the name does sound like an acronym) has done a skilful […]

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] they could do a post-election opinion poll asking people if they were influenced by the Agency’s work; by the nature of things the work was concealed. Perhaps new techniques will be developed to track the impact of disinformation on target audiences; but those methods, too, would have to remain invisible and untraceable. There is […]

Chameleo: A strange but true story of invisible spies, heroin addiction and Homeland Security by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: Chameleo A strange but true story of invisible spies, heroin addiction and Homeland Security Robert Guffey London and New York: O/R Books, 2015, £11.00/$18.00, p/b http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/chameleo/ In 1989 Harlan Girard was going round the London media trying to interest them in his story. He got no takers but someone suggested Lobster – then one […]

Facilitating Tyranny? Glenn Greenwald and the creation of the NSA’s ‘Panopticon’

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] comes about. We can see this in his rather odd treatment of the evidence he cites as proof of the adverse impact mass 3 4 Glenn Greenwald, ‘New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear and Self Censorship’, The Intercept, 29 April 2016 at . surveillance has on society. Referring to literature, he cites […]

Blair and Israel

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: This is a chapter in my 2002 The Rise of New Labour, which is still available for virtually nothing on-line from Amazon and Abebooks. It originally appeared in Lobster 43 and seems worth reposting in the context of the Al Jazeera revelations about Israeli operations in British politics.1 Blair and Israel Robin Ramsay In […]

Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case by James DiEugenio

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: Destiny Betrayed JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison case James DiEugenio New York: Skyhorse, 2012, $16.95, paperback This is the second edition of DiEugenio’s book. The first edition is among the hundreds of JFK assassination books I have not read. DiEugenio is very good indeed, as a quick perusal of some of his writing at […]

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were the most powerful force in British imperial politics at least until the end of World War I: ‘Grey was not the puppet-master; the men of the new policy – Bertie, Hardinge, Mallet, Tyrrell and so on – were not manipulated or controlled by him, but worked alongside him as the members of a […]

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